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Sailing on Liquid Gold, Shoreline Lake, Mountain View California

Shoreline Lake is a man-made salt water lake filled by water pumped in from the San Francisco Bay. Due to constant winds, the Bay Area is very popular for windsurfing.

Polynesian Islanders used boards with sails for hundreds of years. 1n 1948, a prototype board was invented using a small catamaran, but it wasn’t until the 1960s that the modern windsurfing board was developed. In 1984 the sport of windsurfing was added to the Olympics and it grew exponentially in popularity after that.

 

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Uploaded on February 28, 2019
Taken on September 23, 2014